[This is a continuation of one part of the http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2010JanMar/0043.html thread.]
It addresses the comment:
[[ 7.16. The span Element http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#the-span-element-and-its-attributes
[2] I think the example could be improved by having something inside the span with punctuation (eg. exclamation mark) or such, and maybe the description should be in English - otherwise you'd probably want to put the dir on the widget tag and have English in the span. Should I try to find another example ?
]] at http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0907-widgets-pc/
Here's my proposed example (thanks to Aharon Lanin for helping with the Hebrew). I made up something that might appear in a Hebrew widget, rather than an English one, since it's a little more realistic.
<widget
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
xml:lang="he" dir="rtl">
<name xml:lang="en">GPS Weather!</name>
<description
יישומון ה-<span dir="rtl" xml:lang="en">GPS Weather!</span> מאפשר לך לבדוק את מזג האוויר בכל נקודת GPS ברחבי העולם.
</description>
</widget>
Here's a version ready to drop into HTML (I suggest you copy it as a unit, to avoid problems with the bidirectional text.)
&lt;widget
xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets&quot;
xml:lang=&quot;he&quot; dir=&quot;rtl&quot;&gt;
&lt;name xml:lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;GPS Weather!&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;description
יישומון ה-&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; xml:lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;GPS Weather!&lt;/span&gt; מאפשר לך לבדוק את מזג האוויר בכל נקודת GPS ברחבי העולם.
&lt;/description&gt;
&lt;/widget&gt;
Cheers,
RI
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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
http://www.w3.org/International/http://rishida.net/